Mangrove forest, which is known as ‘Green Wall’ that protected the people of the coastal district from the devastation of cyclone Sidr, is shrinking fast, thanks to unmindful felling of trees and lack of effective conservation efforts.
Category: Environment
Dyke collapse floods 6 Bagerhat villages in BD
Six villages were inundated in Sadar upazila as the river protection embankment along the Bhairab River collapsed at three points early Wednesday, leaving 1,000 people marooned.
E-pedicabs can transform urban transport in Asia
The last mile is one of the great challenges to urban mobility. Without a means to safely, securely, comfortably, and affordably travel to and from public transport, citizens will do so by car or motorcycle.
Depression in Bay: Tidal surge likely in coastal districts
The low-lying areas of the coastal districts and offshore islands and Chars are likely to be inundated by surge height of 2-3 feet above normal astronomical tide under the influence of a monsoon depression.
Brace for extra-warm weather through 2022
Manmade global warming and a natural surge in Earth’s surface temperature will join forces to make the next five years exceptionally hot, according to a study published Tuesday.
Sundarbans mangroves harbour antibiotic resistant bacteria?
by Sahana Ghosh Researchers have documented the presence of antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) in the microbial milieu of the Sundarbans mangroves in a new study.
Tobacco consumption in BD falls by 8 percent
Tobacco users have declined by eight per cent in Bangladesh in the last eight years, a Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) 2017 showed indicating that anti-tobacco measures yielded the benefits.
Dhaka 2nd least livable city in the world
Bangladesh capital Dhaka has ranked the second least liveable city in the world, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit annual global survey.
Feed industry decries decision of mandatory jute packaging
Feed Industries Association Bangladesh (FIAB) on Tuesday protested the government’s recent decision to make it mandatory to use jute bags for packaging poultry and fish feed products.
Rohingyas Myanmar nationals; accept them: Mahathir
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has said Myanmar must accept Rohingyas because they are their citizens as they have lived in Myanmar for generations.
Remove ‘Myanmar national’ from Rohingya ID cards: Yangon
Bangladesh has agreed to a request from Myanmar officials to replace the words “Myanmar nationals” with “displaced persons from Rakhine state” on identity cards issued to Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, a Bangladeshi official told BenarNews, an RFA-affiliated online news…
Senior Trump officials survey California fire devastation
Senior members of President Donald Trump’s administration visited California Monday as blazes that have killed at least eight people continued to cut a catastrophic swathe through the country’s most populous state.
Bangladesh wants durable Rohingya repatriation: FS
Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque on Monday reiterated that the repatriation issue in any country is a very ‘complex and difficult’ issue which cannot be done overnight.
Two schoolboys drown in city’s Ramna Lake
Two schoolboys drowned in the Ramna Lake in the city on Sunday afternoon.The deceased were identified as Adnan, 15, and Mahfuz, 15, students of Willes Little Flower School and College.
Massive tree plantation to bring ecological balance stressed
Educationists and environmental activists at a function have stressed massive tree plantation to create an eco-friendly green nature for bringing ecological equilibrium.
FM of BD visits Maungdaw town in Rakhine
A high-profile Bangladesh delegation, led by Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali, on Saturday visited Maungdaw, a town in Rakhine State of Myanmar, to see the situation there.
Monsanto to appeal $289 million verdict
Monsanto Co. says it will appeal a $289 million verdict a San Francisco jury ordered it to pay a former groundskeeper who claimed the company’s weed killer contributed to his terminal cancer.
California blazes threaten populated areas
Authorities battling massive wildfires in large swathes of California issued mandatory evacuation orders and health warnings Friday over the worsening air quality as the flames grew ever closer to populated areas.
‘Sexual violence applied to force ethnic minorities migrate’
Dhaka, Aug 11 – Sexual violence against ethnic minority women is used as one of the main tools to force the people living in hills to migrate elsewhere leaving their ancestral lands, say experts and human right activists.
Solar energy helping greater access to safe water in Yemen
By International Organization for Migration Aug 9 2018 (IOM) – Yemen has one of the lowest supplies of freshwater per capita in the world. The effects of a growing population and limited water resources have been exacerbated a great deal…
Myanmar snubs Hague court’s intervention in Rohingya crisis
Yangon, Aug 10 (AP/UNB) — Myanmar sharply rejected an attempt by the International Criminal Court to consider the country’s culpability for activities that caused 700,000 minority Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh for safety last year.
Firefighters make progress in California but weather not promising
Thousands of firefighters, backed by US troops and crews from as far away as Australia and New Zealand, made progress Wednesday in their battle with California’s biggest wildfire on record — but the weather forecast for the rest of the…
Farmer-herder conflicts on the rise in Africa
By Juliana Nnoko-Mewanu Minnesota, United States, Aug 6 2018 (IPS) – Violent clashes between farmers and herders in Nigeria’s Middle Belt in June reminded me of a smelting hot afternoon a year ago. I was sitting in my living room…
Police, Rab arrest 6 from capital for Facebook posts
Dhaka, Aug 8 – Law enforcers on Wednesday have arrested six more people from the capital because of their alleged connection in spreading the rumour in social media during the student-led protest for a safer road.
700kg polythene seized from Chawkbazar
Dhaka- The Department of Environment (DoE) on Wednesday in a drive seized some 700 kgs of banned polythene from three factories in the city’s Chawkbazar area.
Drought declared in entire state of New South Wales
Australia’s most populous state, New South Wales (NSW), is now entirely in drought, officials have confirmed.
Earth headed towards “hothouse climate” tipping point
The world could enter an irreversible “hothouse climate” if the global average temperature increases by 1 degree Celsius, a study has found. The international study, led by researchers from the Australian National University (ANU), revealed that Earth’s climate was approaching…
Rohingyas awaiting future return to Myanmar need safer camps
Bangkok – The Bangladeshi government should relocate Rohingya refugees living in a severely overcrowded mega camp to safer ground in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Human Rights Watch said in a report issued today. The refugees, who fled the Burmese military’s campaign…
HR group opposes moving Rohingya to island camp
A human rights group urged Bangladesh’s government on Monday to abandon plans to relocate Rohingya Muslim refugees to a small, uninhabited island said to be at severe risk of serious flooding.
California’s raging wildfires cause another death
California’s deadly Carr wildfire — now the state’s sixth most destructive — has claimed another life with a power linesman killed on the job its seventh fatality, officials said Sunday.